British ethical theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing / Thomas Hurka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurka, Thomas, 1952- author.

Series:

Oxford history of philosophy.

Oxford History of Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Ethics.

Ethics--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

The subject of this book is a unified and distinctive school of British ethical theorists active from the 1870s through the 1950s, though its period of greatest influence was the 1920s and 1930s. The book recovers this neglected school's history, showing what its members thought, how they influenced each other, and how their views changed through time; identifies the common assumptions that made it unified and distinctive; and argues for the superiority of these assumptions over others such as Aristotle's and Kant's.

Contents:

1. Minimal Concepts

2. 'Ought' and 'Good'

3. Kinds of Goodness and Duty

4. Non-Naturalism

5. Intuitionism

6. Moral Truths: Underivative and Derived

7. Consequentialism vs. Deontology

8. Act-Consequentialism, Pluralist Deontology

9. Non-Moral Goods

10. Moral Goods

11. Your Good, Distribution, Punishment

12. Historians of Ethics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-103854-7

0-19-880152-1

0-19-179269-1

0-19-103853-9

OCLC:

1336402167